The airstrike was the first time the fighter jet had brought down an aircraft since the plane debuted in combat in Syria and Iraq almost a decade ago.

Lmao

  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    2 years ago

    Hey everybody the F-22 now has a 100% win rate in air-to-air engagements. Utterly destroyed every single air target it’s engaged without taking a scratch. Woo USA number 1.

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  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    Inb4 buncha coping libs with “AKSCHUALLY it was designed primarily as a ground attack craft and it’s very efficient at that role sweetie”

  • bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Best part, it probably only cost the Chinese only a number of thousands to make the balloon, but to shoot one down costs the US somewhere in the ballpark of $2m USD per balloon.

    China should send a few thousand empty balloons over the US, since for every 500 China sends the US would blow $1b in defense budget if they shot them all down (this is a joke… kinda…).

    • frippa
      9·
      2 years ago

      They shot down an hobbyist balloon in a similar way, er could put thousands of 12€ balloons in the air, and if we’re lucky they’ll reach the US one day, and they will have to drain their defence budget on them and can’t focus on stopping socialism

      (this is your mind when you live in Rome)